Trees: Bitcoin-Powered Drone Delivers Cannabis to Your Doorstep

Trees: Bitcoin-Powered Drone Delivers Cannabis to Your Doorstep

Cointelegraph chatted with Marshall Hayner, the co-founder of Trees, a unique “cannabis delivery startup app” that accepts bitcoin and also hopes to employ drones in the future. The team is lead by founders Marshall Hayner and Mikko Ohtamaa with an intense desire to shake up the cannabis industry. Just as Ohtamaa shook up the Bitcoin scene with localbitcoins, Trees aims to disrupt the cannabis environment via decentralization. Taking the legal cannabis system and making it more Uber-esque for the mainstream, the project is creating a new way of doing business. The team looks forward to....


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